"Too many white Americans think of themselves exclusively as sports fans, professionals or wypipo. Too few see themselves inclusively as citizens."
This is so true it's painful, but sadly, it's far from just white people. This problem cuts across our entire population. People see the individuals in Washington as "they" when it's really us in a way. We're all in this together. We all suffer the consequences. People just say, "they need to work together and get shit done" and then tune out and pretend that a deeply divisive and traitorous snake isn't occupying the most powerful office in our government. People need to take more personal responsibility for our country and government as a whole. It's really all we have as a people.
A very poorly informed coworker of mine was blase about voting and managed to invoke my wrath yesterday by claiming "both sides are the same." I pretty much went nuts and shredded his logic from top to bottom. But I could clearly see how the GOP wouldn't even be able to function without vaguely informed idiots suffering from the Dunning Krueger effect. They're only able to pull it off because stupid people are too confused to find out what's actually going on and the Republicans aren't truly held accountable. If we all had the same facts, there'd be much more agreement in general. For example, he thought both sides were corrupt because of Benghazi. I asked him what happened in Benghazi and he obviously had no fucking clue, it was just a buzzword to him. He didn't know what happened or why it was a scandal. You talked about the GOP scandal-creation machine recently and I immediately thought of you.
No one approves of Putin putting bounties on our troops, but some people just refuse to believe the truth. If everyone knew what was true, I doubt we'd be so polarized.
Thank you for the thoughtful words, John.
"Too many white Americans think of themselves exclusively as sports fans, professionals or wypipo. Too few see themselves inclusively as citizens."
This is so true it's painful, but sadly, it's far from just white people. This problem cuts across our entire population. People see the individuals in Washington as "they" when it's really us in a way. We're all in this together. We all suffer the consequences. People just say, "they need to work together and get shit done" and then tune out and pretend that a deeply divisive and traitorous snake isn't occupying the most powerful office in our government. People need to take more personal responsibility for our country and government as a whole. It's really all we have as a people.
A very poorly informed coworker of mine was blase about voting and managed to invoke my wrath yesterday by claiming "both sides are the same." I pretty much went nuts and shredded his logic from top to bottom. But I could clearly see how the GOP wouldn't even be able to function without vaguely informed idiots suffering from the Dunning Krueger effect. They're only able to pull it off because stupid people are too confused to find out what's actually going on and the Republicans aren't truly held accountable. If we all had the same facts, there'd be much more agreement in general. For example, he thought both sides were corrupt because of Benghazi. I asked him what happened in Benghazi and he obviously had no fucking clue, it was just a buzzword to him. He didn't know what happened or why it was a scandal. You talked about the GOP scandal-creation machine recently and I immediately thought of you.
No one approves of Putin putting bounties on our troops, but some people just refuse to believe the truth. If everyone knew what was true, I doubt we'd be so polarized.